Lung inflation inhibits rapidly adapting receptor relay neurons in the rat
Lung inflation inhibits rapidly adapting receptor relay neurons in the rat
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DOI:
10.1097/00001756-200006050-00023
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发表时间:
2000-06-05
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Tanaka, I
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作者:
Ezure, K;Tanaka, I
Pulmonary slowly adapting receptors (SARs) and rapidly adapting receptors (RARs) are important components of various respiratory reflexes. In anesthetized, paralyzed and artificially ventilated rats, we found an inhibitory linkage from the former to the latter system at the level of their second-order relay neurons (P cells and RAR cells, respectively). Lung inflation which activates RARs as well as SARs suppressed RAR cell activity evoked by electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve. Intracellular recordings from RAR cells showed IPSPs locked to electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral and contralateral vagus nerves at an intensity just above the threshold for P cell activation. Activation of P cells with glutamate suppressed RAR cell firing. Since P cells project to the area of RAR cells, taken together, these results strongly suggest that P cells synaptically inhibit RAR cells. NeuroReport 11:1709-1712 (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.